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Bryan Appleyard on the problem with neo-atheism and Matt Ridley on the problem with wind energy.

March 7, 2012

Journalist Bryan Appleyard writing in the New Statesman, Feb 28:

Ultimately, the problem with militant neo-atheism is that it represents a profound category error. Explaining religion—or, indeed, the human experience—in scientific terms is futile. "It would be as bizarre as to launch a scientific investigation into the truth of Anna...